Purpose
of this list: My
purpose is to attempt to list every doctoral dissertation, masters
thesis, and baccalaureate/senior/honors thesis dealing with science
fiction, fantasy, horror, supernatural, and utopian/dystopian
literature and media of which I become aware. Lists attempting to
list 'everything' of something are doomed to a certain level of
incompleteness,
but the attempt is part of the fun of doing it.

Arrangement
of this list:
This list is arranged in a simple A-Z listing by the authors
surnames.

The information
provided:

Date or year of the degree;

Author Name;

Title of the thesis/dissertation; Institution which gave the
degree;

the Country, or the Country-State/Province for U.S. and Canadian
institutions;

the Department in which the degree was earned, if known; and

reference to the Dissertation
Abstracts International or Masters
Abstracts International volume and page, if known, where an
abstract may be found.

Compilation
of this list:
This list has been compiled by searching a variety of sources, among
them:

Digital Dissertations,
the electronic version of Dissertation
Abstracts International and Masters
Abstracts International

WorldCat, the OCLC
catalog of books and other materials in many thousands of libraries
worldwide

Searches in many dozens of individual library catalogs

Items in bibliographies in books, articles, webpages, and in
other
theses and dissertations

and, of course, by serendipity

I have examined
more than 20% of these dissertations and theses,
either in paper, microformat, or electronic versions for another
project, and will continue to do so. Many thanks to the libraries
which I have visited, and which have loaned materials, with the biggest
thanks to be given to InterLibrary Services at CSULB (Alex Rambo
and his group of hard-working people).

Updates
to this list:
Currently, I plan to update the main list on a quarterly basis, more or
less. For new titles which have not yet been added to the main
list, please see the New
Titles
list link below.

Suggest
additions/corrections to this
list:
If you know of additional candidates for this list (or corrections
needing to be made), please send the
bibliographic information to me at: lswigart (AT) csulb (DOT)
edu.
Or use this
online form.
And THANK YOU!

Those titles
which I've not yet decided are appropriate for this
list. If you are familiar with any of them, and have an opinion
on whether they should be included in the main listing or not, please
contact me.

These titles
have been excluded from the main listing because while
they may appear in the results of various searches conducted in pursuit
of dissertations and theses for this listing, they seem to be 'false
drops' or inappropriate. If you think I have misclassified any of
these titles, and that any of them should be included in the main
listing, please contact me.

These titles
have not yet been added to the main list (above).
This list will be updated more frequently than the (planned) quarterly
updates. Once these new titles have been added to the main list,
a new New Titles list will be started and the process will begin again.

This page
created: 17 September 2004This page last
updated: 24 September 2004